22 February, 2009

March to City Hall for MLS - Rally: 2/28‏

  • WHAT?

A march and rally to show our community support of getting a Major League Soccer team in Portland!

  • WHEN?

Saturday, 2/28
1:30pm: Meet at the Salmon Street Fountain
2:00pm: March to City Hall
2:30pm: Rally in front of City Hall (4th Ave. Entrance)

  • WHERE?

Salmon Street Fountain: The Salmon Street Springs Fountain is located at Salmon Street and Front Ave. in Waterfront Park, near the Portland Visitor's Center.

City Hall: 1221 SW 4th Avenue.

  • BRING?

Friends and Family: In order to help our cause, we need a crowd at this family friendly event! Dogs are welcome too!

MLS to Portland Signs & Flags: Let's make sure people know exactly what we are advocating!

The Noise: Drums, horns, and your voice!

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16 February, 2009

SXSW Music Festival Schedule

Checkout the listing of bands that are playing this years SXSW Music Festival. Free downloads of some songs are also available, check 'em out. Lot's of Portland bands are listed this year.

01 February, 2009

How To Secure A Website

The first thing to do is go here:
Type in the Domain name you would like to use in the box. It will tell you if and what is available.
Once you figure out what domain you are going to use you can then go to any hosting site and start the process of starting up your own website.

Normally, regardless of what hosting company you choose you have to sign up and create a profile, it's usually free to do that. Once you have signed up you can now buy your domain name. Many options are available, I would pick a 2-year pre-paid plan, that way you don't have to deal with monthly rates and chances are long term pre-paid plans go for better rates.

Once you have your domain secured you can then purchase your hosting, lot's of different options here.
Many things come into play when buying hosting space. Keep in mind how much space are you going to need for your site. Every plan is a little bit different depending on support, length of plan, space available, month to month or pre-payed options.

Once that is all set the hosting company will send you info about your account. Keep all that info, lots of important codes and what not will be sent to you. At that point you can now set up your e-mail address through your new site name.

It's important to do your research. Below is a quick list of some web hosting company's that I found doing a google search.